英语竞赛朗诵材料.doc

2010年大学生英语朗诵比赛诵读材料 分级说明：为了便于参赛选手准备此次朗诵比赛，诵读篇目被划定了难度系数。难度系数为1、2、3三个等级。难度系数为1，最后得分为评委评分X100%；难度系数为2，最后得分为评委评分X105%；难度系数为3，最后得分为评委评分X110%。 朗诵要求：参赛选手自行选择篇目，经反复练习，达到能脱稿朗诵的程度。朗诵比赛复赛和决赛时，一律脱稿朗诵，照稿朗诵不予评分。初赛由任课教师自行确定；复赛只有脱稿朗诵一个环节；决赛有脱稿朗诵和即兴答问两个环节。问题与朗诵篇目相关。 Passage 1（难度系数：1） On Learning Learning is one’s own business, which cannot rely on others. As we know, learning is a process of accumulating knowledge. It is one’s life-long task, which cannot be accomplished in one move. A successful learner is an independent one who has both an indomitable (unyielding) will and amazing endurance. He will try to discover his own way of learning. Instead of waiting for the teacher’s help, he will make efforts to create favorable conditions on his own initiative. It will certainly be of great help, if there is good environment, sufficient books and equipment, as well as instructions from teachers and beneficial friends. But even if one has got all these favorable conditions, one cannot be sure to succeed in learning. So the most important factor in learning consists in one’s own effort. To learn is rather a painstaking and persevering business. Many a man is a failure because he cannot bear such indispensable hardships. Unremitting (never stopping) efforts can compensate for the lack of talents and thus enable one to get considerable progress in learning. Passage 2（难度系数：1） For all the wonderful things the Internet has brought us, people still can’t do the simple things like reaching out and touching someone else. Or can they? When the Internet was first introduced, it was completely textual. Words could be transmitted to one another but nothing more. But as the World Wide Web came online, people could share images of what they were talking about. As technology progressed, those images became “real-time” in the form of web-cameras and video links. Along with that came the ability to hear and communicate with voice. While the Internet has met the needs of sight and sound, it has not reache